HILAND CRUDE, LLC — Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only — incident on 2022-05-02

Hazardous liquid gravity and reporting-regulated-only incident in MCGREGOR, WILLIAMS County, ND. Reported cause: CORROSION FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 2400 CRUDE OIL released, $95,390 reported property damage. Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. Records may be supplemented or corrected and do not represent final agency causal findings.

Report number: 20220041.

Operator ID: 32619.

Reported incident date: 5/2/2022 6:41.

Cause detail: EXTERNAL CORROSION

Cause detail: ON MAY 2, 2022 AT 6:41AM, HILAND CRUDE, LLC (HILAND) WAS NOTIFIED BY AN EMPLOYEE OF CONTINENTAL RESOURCES WHO WAS WORKING AT THE JEROL MCGREGOR 2-3 LEASE PAD IN MCGREGOR, NORTH DAKOTA THAT THERE WAS A CRUDE SPILL ON THE HILAND RIGHT OF WAY. HILAND EMPLOYEES RESPONDED BY IMPLEMENTING THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN, THE OIL SPILL RESPONSE PLAN AND BY ACTIVATING AN OIL SPILL RESPONSE ORGANIZATION. THE PIPELINE SEGMENT WAS ISOLATED AND HILAND BEGAN TAKING CRUDE OUT OF THE PIPELINE VIA BACKTRUCK IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE TOTAL SPILL VOLUME. THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE RELEASE REVEALED THAT IT WAS CAUSED BY AN EXTERNAL CORROSION LEAK. THE CONTRACTOR WHO APPLIED THE PIPELINE COATING, FAILED TO APPLY COATING TO MANUFACTURERS SPECIFICATIONS WHICH CAUSED DISBONDED COATING ON THE PIPELINE RESULTING IN AN EXTERNAL CORROSION FAILURE ON THE GIRTH WELD OF A 90� ELBOW. THE PIPELINE WAS INSTALLED BY A PRIOR OPERATOR IN SEPTEMBER 2013 AND NOT UNDER HILAND'S CURRENT DESIGN CRITERIA. IN ORDER TO PREVENT A REOCCURRENCE, THIS PIPELINE HAS BEEN ABANDONED.